Emjay

What I want to know is ....

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:14:18 -0800

` With us all diligently slapping hand sanitizer on our hands to kill 99.99% of everything that might make us sick..... where do all the killed germs go? These have nothing to do with dead things on hands - I just thought they were pretty. ...

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Zooming in on terror

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:22:18 -0800

~ I am scared of squirrels. Irrational I know and I'm annoyed at myself for being afraid of such a cute looking little thing. I'd never seen a "real" squirrel until my first day here and when I saw them I raved over their sweet little faces an...

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Still at the Old Soldiers' Home

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:46:31 -0800

Continuing on from Lincoln's Cottage we wandered into an area that we might not have been authorized to enter given we did not have visitors passes.... The Old Soldiers' Home. Written under the clock is SHERMAN The Old Soldier's Home was found...

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Weekend walk to history

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:51:41 -0800

Our weekend walk was a little damp as we wandered along Rock Creek Church Road: to President Lincoln's Cottage at the Old Soldiers' Home. The site is 3 miles north of the White House and Lincoln used this as his summer retreat from June-Novembe...

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Halloween

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:20:31 -0700

~ So, what do we do for Halloween? Well, we had some friends over after lunch, and now we sit here filled with dutch courage, waiting for the assault on our door. This is our second Halloween in the house. Last year I bought candy though...

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More of nature's colour

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:56:33 -0700

~ My laptop has had to be airlifted to intensive care.... over the weekend just after I had downloaded my photos from the Arboretum it developed some very weird hieroglyphic type scribble over the desktop. I have a mac which is almost 3 years...

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Marriage & Autumn

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:43:03 -0700

~ We rented a car so that we could get to a friend's place way out in the 'burbs of Virginia last night. When the manservant brought the car home he said that he had had to park it "way down near the park" and that it was pouring with rain. ...

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Wow! ....

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:58:26 -0700

~ Who would've thought that a post on matching shoes to a dress would garner such interest but then I never thought choosing between the two pairs was going to be so difficult until I put them on! By posting my question here I thought there ...

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Choose a Shoe...

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:18:39 -0700

~ In about 7 weeks time I am going to be a Mother-of-the-Groom. Now, while I realise this position is not as important as Mother-of-the-Bride, or even the Bride herself, I will be on display more than I'm used to and, as such, open to some fashi...

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Appearances...

nobody@vox.com(Emjay) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:50:25 -0700

~ This morning a little boy, about 6 years old, very well dressed and with a miniature back pack, got on the train with his mother and baby sister. He sat down and clasped his hands neatly together and began curiously looking at people around h...

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